Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-07-06
THE CROP OUTLOOK.

The following is the weather crop bulle-
tin issued lastSunday by the signal office for
the week ending on Saturday: "Reports
from the cotton region Indicate that the
weather during the week, owing to abund-
ant and well-distributed showers, has been
favorable to cotton, although its growth
may have been slightly retarded by the
cool weather.
1.-The weather has been favorable for har-
vesting wheat and hay from the Lake re-
gion and the Ohio Valley eastward to the
Atlantic coast, while in the Missouri and
Mississippi valleys showers have delayed
harvesting in those sections.
1.-THE weather has been especially favor
able in the corn region, and the recent
rains have extended over a greater portion
ofthe corr belt. Excellent growing wealth
er is reported from New England and the
Middle States, whose large hay crop has
been secured" .
The regular monthly cotton crop report
ofthe Memphis district which embraces
West Tennessee, North Mississippi, North
Arkansas and North Alabama, published
last Monday says: "The weather during
June has in the main been favorable to
cotton. Rain which was not needed IN
many localities fell during the last three
days of the month, and copious showers
have fallen throughout the district within
the pastfewdays, which have been of mate
rial benefit to both cotton and corn. With
rare exceptions, our three hundred and
twelve correspondents, as a rule, report
good stand, With the plant forming and
blooming we'll. The condition ofthe crop
IS not only more favorable than last year,
but is on the average about two weeks ear
lier. This is a most promising outlook for
cotton and corn. However, many sections
have suffered from drought, but the indi-
cations are that a full average crop will be
raised more than will be needed for use
within the district and considerably in ex-
cess of last year."
THE GALLOWs.-Jim McElroy, colored,
was hanged at Henderson, KY, last Fri
day. He reasserted his ~oft-repeated story
that he was innocent of the crime for which
he was convicted. He was the murderer
of VIM. Mart, one of the most prominent
and respected farmers in Kentucky.
Albert Turner, colored, was hanged at
Louisville, Ky, at 6.32, Friday, for the
Bowman, last May. Turner was strangled
to death, the body being cut down in
about twenty minutes after the trap was
sprung. Only fifty people were admitted
to the yard, but about two thousand as
sembled in the vicinity as early as 4.3O
o'clock. During the prayer, which imme-
diately preceded the fall of the trap, Tur-
ner gazed at the crowd about him uncon-
cernedly and walked to his death without
any evidence of fear. His dying state
ment is a flat contradiction Of what he has
insisted upon all along. Of the statement
made in Jail Thursday night before four
witnesses, it exculpates Patterson, his ac-
complete in the matter, who is also senten-
ced to hang, but whose appeal has not yet
been heard by the Court of Appeals. Tur-
ner made arrangements for a fine funeral.
On Wednesday, his reception day, he re-
fused to see any one unless he was paid v
cents for a look Of fifteen seconds. by the
sale of his photographs and by his charges
to visitors, he collected over $50 with which
he bought a coffin with elegant trimmings.
MORE EARTHQUAKEs.-The most vio-
lent earthquakes experienced at Guaya:-
quill, Mexico, since 1853, occurred last
Thursday morning, causing great alarm
among the population. The shock lasted
two minutes and twenty seconds, and the
direction ofthe movement Wasfrom North
east to Southwest. All the clocks in the
city were stopped. Several buildings were
demolished and others were badly DAM
aged. So far as reported, no person was
injured. 1t is feared that the shock must
have caused much damage in cities in the
interior.
On Friday distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt in various parts of New Hamp-
shire and Vermont.
THE TEXAS CAMPAIGNING doubt
about it, Texas is convulsed over the pro-
hibition question. Public sentiment on
the subject has undergone a revolution.
The campaign in progress is exciting and
is being conducted with great shreWdness
by both sides. The Prohibitionists will